Items matching colleges

Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Overview map of Oxford from 1900 or so, showing the River Thames of Isis, giving the names of almost all the streets, marking the colleges of Oxford University, the railway and other items.

Keywords: maps, plans, cities, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Oxford and its Colleges

The figure is captioned as follows: 1. Oriel. 2. St. John’s. 3. Christ Church Cathedral and Chapter House. 4. Christ Church and Tom Tower. 5. St. Mary’s and ‘the High. 6. Magdalen College and Bridge f [...]

Keywords: colleges, cathedrals, towers, churches, cities

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Erasmus’ Tower, Queen’s College

“The fifteenth century saw four more Colleges added to the list of Cambridge Houses: King’s, 1441; Queens’, 1448; St. Catharine’s, 1473; Jesus, 1495.” (p. 22)

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings

Places shown: Queens’ College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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The Great Court, Trinity College

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352. “Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the f [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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The Kitchen Wall, Peterhouse

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library Rotunda

... the great dome of the Radcliffe Camera rose up in the space between All Souls and brasenose colleges, and was thenceforth the first object to take the eye of one who looks on Oxford lying glorious [...]

Keywords: churches, lawns, tudor, flowerboxes, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Christ Church

Now let us stroll on – ’tis but a step – to Christ Church. Sometimes it seems as though this should take precedence of all other colleges. Its chapel is Oxford’s Cathedral, its quadrangles are the f [...]

Keywords: towns, churches, towers, roads, people, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Magdalan Bridge and Tower

Magdalan Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fariest sight in Oxford. [p. 9]

Keywords: bridges, towers, churches, water, boats, flowers, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Magdalen College From the Cherwell

Magdalen Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fairest sight in Oxford. [p. 9]

Keywords: towers, water, bridges, churches, colour, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens

Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens. [p. 25]

Keywords: houses, flowers, people, trees, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How

A brownish gray cover with a thick green border around a colour image. This book is part of a series produced from around 1900 until well into the 1950s as far as I can tell.

Keywords: book covers, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-10-19

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